GOVERNMENT

Superannuation

ASFA CEO Pauline Vamos has called for calm and considered debate about the future of the superannuation system....

Superannuation

The Minister for Financial Services, Bill Shorten, has claimed the budget bottom line is not driving Labor superannuation policy....

Superannuation

Higher superannuation taxes for upper income earners may not be the only thing contained in the Federal Budget....

Superannuation

Government’s Budget super changes may represent a broadening of 2012 approach. ...

People & Products

AMP has appointed SMSF Professionals’ Association of Australian (SPAA) technical director Peter Burgess as head of policy and technical across the institution’s SMSF divi...

Superannuation

Industry concern that Government may impose a threshold as low as $180,000 for its super changes....

Superannuation

Senator Mathias Cormann has called on Minister Bill Shorten to speak up against further taxes on super....

Superannuation

Superannuation executives have come together in advocating against further changes to super before the upcoming Federal election....

Financial planning

Financial Services minister Bill Shorten has acknowledged the public’s desire for super policy to be depoliticised....

Financial planning

APRA’s Charles Littrell argues the case for political bipartisanship on supporting the financial services regulators....

Editorial

With the Australian Securities and Investments Commission having fired a shot over the bows of the industry on the question of churn, the Risk Store’s Sue Laing argues th...

Superannuation

The Government has introduced legislation into Parliament that will require superannuation fund trustess to consolidate multiple accounts that are held by the same member...

Life/Risk

FSC chief executive John Brogden has once again called upon the life insurance industry to heed ASIC’s warning and self-regulate on churn while it can....

Financial planning

The major industry bodies have welcomed the introduction of legislation into Parliament that will enshrine the terms ‘financial planner’ and ‘financial adviser’ in law....

Editorial

Few people in the financial planning industry will have failed to notice, via draft legislation released by the Treasury, that the Federal Government has delivered what w...

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

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ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

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ASIC has confirmed the industry funding levy for the 2024–25 financial year, and how much licensees can expect to pay....

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